Everyday Fine Handmade Afghan Ziegler Rug - 262368 Price Crushed By 55% [y4uUjbF2]

This could be your rug if you want something completely different with minimal colours. It is an extremely unusual Fine Afghan Ziegler in two-tone colouring. It has a Heather pink background with a contrasting deeper shade of floral decoration. It is made with beautiful quality wool, which has a lovely sheen.

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Many people are curious about the William Morris connection; Ziegler worked collaboratively with William Morris, taking his designs into Persia and securing weavers in Tabriz and Sultanabad to produce fine examples of traditionally made carpets that were specifically produced for the export market into booming Victorian Britain. The processes used were developed at the weaving stage, more crucially extending into the finishing process, particularly the herbal washes used. The fashion was to experiment at the time, and the early Ziegler designs were quite different from other traditional rugs and carpets of this period. The Oriental rug trade had not been used in this way before. In many ways, the pioneering techniques used by Ziegler & Co have been part of the inspiration behind some of the newly designed pieces from Afghan weavers, like the Samarkand and Mamluks.

After the carpets have been hand-knotted, they are washed with gallons of flowing water (literally thrown bucket by bucket). The carpet is scrubbed with brushes with tough bristles, enabling surplus dyes to be removed and making it much lighter in colour. The scrubbing also makes the carpet look slightly older or even, as some describe it, an 'antique look'. The different Mordants used to wash and fix the dyes also affect the colouration of the original vegetable dyes.

We recommend the use of an underlay with this product:
www.jenningsrugs.co.uk/collections/Foxi-underlay

Product size:
246 x 170cm (8'1 x 5'7)